our family is now about 50/50 using subtitles. Sometimes due to accents, sometimes due to being courteous and keeping volume down, sometimes due to excessive noise/chats in the house and wanting to keep watching without missing dialogue.
On Thu, Apr 8, 2021 at 4:22 AM Adam Bowie <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 8, 2021 at 3:16 AM Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote: > >> ... >> >> Granted, the thick accents on Shetland are tough, even for someone who >> watches A LOT of UK drama. I have to assume even UK residents need the >> subtitles for some scenes. >> >> > Careful Kevin :-) > > Actually, to British ears the accents on Shetland - the very northernmost > point of the UK - are quite soft and accessible. If you really want a > British accent that you have to get your "ear in" to understand, it's a > broad Glaswegian accent. > > But us Brits have the same issues with a variety of US accents - the deep > south or even a thick Bostonion accent. > > Anyway, there's a new series of Shetland just entering production which > I'm very much looking forward to. > > On an unrelated note, Shetland is based on a series of novels by the crime > writer Ann Cleeves. She also has a series based on another of her detective > "Vera", based in the north-east of England. And ITV has just commissioned a > third series based on yet another of her detectives which is based is Devon > (the far southwest of England). She must be the most successful writer in > the UK at having her books adapted by TV at this point since Agatha > Christie. And yes, she's lived in all those places! > > > Adam > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAD_sJGD7Eb3jinHdonTuhOYpN3e2tRju1bym57xYSrpVJ9HT8A%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAD_sJGD7Eb3jinHdonTuhOYpN3e2tRju1bym57xYSrpVJ9HT8A%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Doug Eastick <[email protected]> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAK5Q1Bp35nFHej5WEWj5a7UVHp5AF56F1nKcf6Ji-mzz63YxSw%40mail.gmail.com.
